[Info-vax] Any stronger versions of the LMF planned ?, was: Re: LMF Licence Generator Code

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/15/2021 1:28 PM, kemain.nospam at gmail.com wrote:
>> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of VAXman---- via
>> Info-vax
>> In article <sf3k2f$re3$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de
>> (Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)) writes:
>>> It is still used in the financial industry, for instance.  And, yes,
>>> people are writing new COBOL code.
>>
>> I have two clients that are both writing COBOL for aerospace logistics and
> on
>> VMS too.
>>
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>>
>> I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.
> 
> Yep, I know of one US-Canada Customs 24x7 critical environment that is based
> on OpenVMS Cobol and Oracle Rdb.
> 
> If the App is down, trucks stop at the border.

It is probably a general characteristics for Cobol
applications today that:
1) they were created many decades ago
2) they do something  really impotant

> Mostly mainframe, but seems like lots of Cobol:
> https://www.adzuna.ca/search?q=cobol&w=Canada

101 Cobol jobs in Canada.

(but for comparison 6392 PHP, 6328 Python, 6146 Java,
3088 C#, 2856 C++, 341 Kotlin, 242 Groovy, 151 Rust,
71 VB.NET, 11 Fortran, 5 PL/I)

Arne